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...narrator, Updike followed Pennington, herself a Fine Arts concentrator, through the Fogg and a few more classes in the department. In June of 1953, at the end of Updike’s junior year, they were married. Updike moved out of Lowell House and into an apartment at 79 Martin St., where he remained through his senior year...
...bombed. Though formulaic, I thought the play had potential when I saw it at New Haven?s Long Wharf Theater in early 2003. But it went badly awry on the road to Broadway, with some misguided rewriting, recasting of the lead role (Judd Hirsch replacing the more credible Martin Landau) and a set that divided the stage into unwieldy halves and dissipated the focus...
...flew Martin B-26 Marauders, which were, without any doubt, the best bombers in the whole wide world. Several weeks prior to June 5, the squadron doctor had passed out a small pill to each crew member. He said the pills were intended to keep the crews awake in case we had to work around the clock. Everybody knew that this was in preparation for D-day. I don't know how they worked on anybody else, but they kept me awake for three nights and three days, completely unable to sleep...
...qualified to expose Mafia secrets as Brasco and Hill. Brasco is the nom de mob for undercover FBI agent Joseph Pistone, whose 1988 autobiography became a movie starring Johnny Depp; Hill's story was first penned by author Nicholas Pileggi in 1985, then made into GoodFellas by Martin Scorsese. Both turned on la famiglia--Brasco ratted out the Bonannos; Hill, the Luccheses--and both have been keeping a lower profile ever since...
...Martin Maloney Twenty of his paintings went up in flames, among them Sony Levi (1997). Maloney, not such a household name, lost works he'd want in any retrospective - a first step toward critical re-evaluation. So the fire really hurts...